Author: The Gazette
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Government shutdown enters second week with no breakthrough in sight
The government shutdown entered its second week on Monday as a solution to Washington’s gridlock over the federal budget continues to elude lawmakers. The Senate is set to vote on a “clean” continuing resolution, or CR, on Monday evening that would keep the government funded at its current levels until late November. Senate Majority Leader…
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US warned about possible attack on its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela says
CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday his government had warned Washington of a “false flag operation” by “extremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right” to plant explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. A false flag operation is when an act is carried out in such a way that a different party appears…
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US Supreme Court rebuffs Project Veritas challenge to Oregon ban on secret recordings
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by the conservative activist group Project Veritas to invalidate on constitutional free speech grounds an Oregon law that generally bans unannounced recordings of conversations. The justices turned away the group’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that upheld the…
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US Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri law negating federal gun curbs
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Missouri’s bid to revive a Republican-backed law intended to prevent enforcement of several federal gun laws in the state. The justices turned away Missouri’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that the state law violated language in the U.S. Constitution called the…
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US Supreme Court won’t hear Russian bank’s appeal over Malaysia Airlines crash
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, to avoid a lawsuit brought under an American anti-terrorism law alleging that it did business with a group blamed for downing a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014. The justices turned away Sberbank’s appeal…
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US Supreme Court rejects Live Nation’s bid to move ticket price case to arbitration
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster to move a proposed consumer class action lawsuit over rigged ticket prices out of federal court and into private arbitration. The justices turned away Live Nation’s appeal of a lower court’s decision…
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge by Turkey’s Halkbank to prosecution
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear another bid by Turkey’s state-owned lender Halkbank to avoid fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges in the United States for allegedly helping Iran evade American economic sanctions. The justices turned away Halkbank’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that let the criminal case…
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US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal of conviction in Epstein sex trafficking case
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction for helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, steering clear of a case that continues to hound President Donald Trump and his administration. The justices turned away…
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Roy Cooper’s record $14 million fundraising haul more than double Whatley’s
Former Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has raised well over double the amount of former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley in the 2026 North Carolina Senate race, putting him at a major advantage. In the first 65 days of the campaign, Cooper raised $14.5 million, dwarfing Whatley’s $5.8 million, Politico reported. Cooper’s total…
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Measles-free status in jeopardy in the Americas as outbreaks continue
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The Americas region is at risk of losing its measles-free status as the highly infectious disease continues to spread in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the head of the Pan American Health Organization told Reuters in an interview. To be considered measles-free, a country where an outbreak takes place…